Review of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) by Svetlana D — 03 Aug 2008

Pretty good recap of what happened with the smartest guys in the room.

Fairly shocking recordings of traders' conversations - but on the second thought. they're human, they can't help it. As for the main guys, when seeing them on the screen I couldn't help getting the same reaction I get as when I watch gamblers - I don't understand that behavioral pattern, it's foreign, and seems entirely incomprehensible. As anything pathological, greed probably needs a good treatment. And on this scale, they got almost what they deserved.